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Is that really true, though? I can't think of any significant examples of games from the '80s or '90s that involved "in-groups punching... on out-groups", unle
by Gormo 3y ago
Is that really true, though? I can't think of any significant examples of games from the '80s or '90s that involved "in-groups punching... on out-groups", unless the out-groups in question were space aliens, nazis, fantasy monsters, hostile AIs, or the like.
Monkey Island is an absolute classic, of course, but this particular point feels almost like a retcon of present-day cultural assumptions into a specific context in the past where the objects of this criticism weren't really quite so present.
- cess11 3y agoDuke Nukem and Shadow Warrior would be pretty obvious examples. Someone else mentioned Leisure Suit Larry. I'd like to mention Samantha Fox Strip Poker as well, though it's a bit more subtle than "punching".
- DarkNova6 3y agoDuke Nukem is an obvious parody. And most ironically, the franchise always seen has more female fans than comparable genre games.
- cess11 3y agoWhat do you mean? Would parody exclude the possibility of down-punching? Imitative mocking is always OK?
- DarkNova6 3y agoYou would need to be more specific than that.
- danielheath 3y agoEG robocop showed lots of police brutality, but it wasn't a movie about how great and normal police brutality was.
- npteljes 3y agoI don't think fans indicate acceptability. For example, serial killers have fans.
- kingforaday 3y agoHail to the king, baby.
- ertian 3y agoThis is true, but those games were noted at the time for being crude and offensive. There was actually quite a bit of dislike for all of the above, and they were seen at the time as the exception rather that the norm. I can think of the occasional bad-taste joke in an adventure game, but I don't think it was ever as pervasive as is implied.
- cess11 3y agoThat's just some very obvious examples. It's not the only examples.
- bdowling 3y agoWe can't truly exalt our enlightened present and future without denigrating the past.
- cryptnotic 3y ago“Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present, controls the past.”